A Victorian Fable(with Glossary)

类别:文学名著 作者:安吉拉·卡特 本章:A Victorian Fable(with Glossary)

    take a fright.

    In the rookeries.

    to spie a doers cooled ts in the hazard drums.

    In every snickert and ginnel, bone-grubbers, rufflers, serers, sneeze-lurkers and s, out of the picaroon, fox and flimp and ogle.

    A s a bloody Jemmy on t-t; tters crib belchers, birds eye wipes, blue billies and Randals men.

    In a boozing ken in tter -- a cock-eyed clack box in flasear by the I desire.

    But er of life doiscripturally t t.

    quot;t t! Me dumpling depot is fair all-overis;

    ainly ulated. t;Square t; But ter.

    At c on the nose for her jomer.

    S  and out glorious sinner. ts, Joe Savace and storrac.

    quot;Pray God,quot; s;t op-an, plouged, s  lapped tter, cant see a o Bungay Fair and lose bot;

    But o .  a capital t for a batty fang and  ime; schy fancy-bloke.

    quot;You mouldy old bed-fagot, you rotten old gooseberry pudden, you ugly old Gill, you flea-ridden old moll!quot; ed. quot;Ill give you jessie, you Mullingar ;

    A barnacled cove (a spoffy blackberry se fringe) from top floor back sang out: quot;Knife it, you ler! Sto; But got a stunning fag on t sent o Albertopolis.

    S t  slubberdegullion. ill s flop doepped it for toad, to go to Joe Blake tlemy.

    wig on her.

    quot; to go to tical care-grinder!quot; s; to be marinated! Ill never poll up ty, beef-ros like him again!

    quot;Im fairly in   fadge, it just  fadge. un reak. Ill pick up my sticks and cut.quot;

    So sed and took a speel on to top of Rome.

    On Sten Saturday, t scaly som and Jerry for starring t over tile at Spike Park and got topped.

    Glossary

    Village, the London

    take a frig (rhyming slang)

    rookeries a sloy

    Irishieves

    sloop of war, a whore (rhyming slang)

    dollymop, a a ta, a

    streetwalker

    flas, to s, to display ones wares

    do of rain

    bonneter, a one wo gamble

    cool, to to look, to look over (back slang)

    longs and ss cards made for cing

    escape

    penniless, if at all

    snickert, a low alley way

    ginnel, a still lower alley way

    bone-grubber, a a person -ters,

    and all likely spots for refuse bones, which

    to the bone-

    mercs

    ruffler, a beggar pretending to be an old, maimed

    soldier

    shivering-jemmy, a a begger who exposes himself, half-naked,

    on a cold day to obtain alms. tion

    is unpleasant but exceedingly lucrative

    angler, an a t h a rod, having a

    ts into open

    nigch

    clapperdogeon, a a beggar wher of his own or

    borroo stir the

    cable

    sear, to to take a dram or glass of neat spirits; jocular

    p of grim earnestness, by

    old topers. t ardent

    spirits, taken neat by younger persons, usually bring

    er to their eyes

    I desire fire (rhyming slang)

    er of life gin (from aqua vitae?)

    common se

    bullyrag, to to abuse or scold violently; to s of money

    by intimidation and sheer abuse

    antiscriptural adj - applied to oathey are composed of

    foul language

    barney the company

    o to be offended

    nab t, to to take offence

    ss

    s t, to vomit

    dumpling depot belly

    all-overis of order

    o to be in a fearful rage

    absquatulate, to depart from an establis  paying ones

    score

    bung landlord

    square, to to settle a bill

    omee man-in-charge; governor; landlord (when used by

    a landlord about himself)

    cream of the valley gin

    splodger lout

    mizzle, to to depart  speed; to vanish

    er sixpence

    ruggy adj. -- froy, unclean

    carser house, home

    poll young lady leman is having an

    irregular relationship

    killing adjective of ion; outstanding; unique

    ginger-hackled adj. -- having auburn or flaxen hair

    skull-tcra maker

    on to be on t

    jomer s

    fake to stand treat in an extravagant manner

    mendozy dear, darling; a term of endearment probably from

    t fighter, Mendoza

    out and out adj. -- first-rate; splendid

    glorious sinner dinner (rhyming slang)

    alderman in curkey h sausages

    Ben Flake, a a steak (rhyming slang)

    neddy, a a large quantity of commodity, as in quot;a neddy of fruitquot;,

    quot;a neddy of fis;

    Sly a

    noted slaughfield

    Iriss potatoes

    Joe Savage cabbage (rhyming slang)

    storrac carrots (back slang)

    beargeared

    bleary

    blued

    primed

    lumpy

    top-heavy

    moony

    scammered

    on tan   - adjectives and ping various stages of

    ploughed

    drunkenness

    muddled

    obfuscated

    swipy

    kisky

    sewed up

    all mops and brooms

    lap tter, to

    not be able to see a

    o /

    go to a Bungay Fair and to imate degree of intoxication. In the

    lose boto Ancient Egyptian language, terminative cer of the

    ;to be drunkquot;  form of the

    leg of a man being amputated

    flare-up, a row

    soush house (back slang)

    drop into somebody, to give ting

    t appetite, e.g. quot;ills got a capital t for a Ben Flakequot; or, in

    te, a capital t for. . .

    batty fang, a a sound beating, a drubbing

    dragging time try fair day, whe young fellows begin

    pulling t

    sick as a ing extreme ennui

    catco take undue advantage

    fancy-bloke gentleman friend

    bed-fagot bed companion

    gooseberry pudden woman (rhyming slang)

    Gill   terms of disapprobation applied to females

    Moll

    blast, to to curse

    give jessie, to to commit assault and battery upon someone

    Mullingar ;beefyquot;, or term of Irish

    origin. It is said t a traveller passing through Mullingar was so

    struck y in t ermined to

    accost t  next. quot;May I ask,quot; said ;if you wear hay

    in your s; quot;Fait if I do?quot; said t;Because,quot;

    says traveller, quot;t accounts for the calves of your legs coming

    doo feed on it.quot;

    barnacled adj. -- applied to a acles (corruption of Latin

    binnoculi?). Derived by some from tifera),

    a kind of conical so stoms. hence a marine

    term for goggles, and for whey are used by sailors in a case of

    op

    cove or covey; a man or boy of any age

    spoffy adj. -- officious, intrusive

    blackberry slaces, etc.

    Nee fringe, a ts indicating

    tion of tces

    sing out, to exclaim in a loud voice

    knife it, to to stop, to bring to a

    stoo to cease evil activity

    stunning adj. -- astounding

    fag blow

    twopenny head

    Albertopolis a facetious appelation given by Villagers to ton Gore

    district

    buy t, to make a bad bargain; obtain a deal of trouble and inconvenience

    by some action

    slubberdegullion ch

    pepper, to

    clump, to   - degrees of beating

    leato /

    flop doo go to collapse totally

    Rory OMore floor (rhyming slang)

    step it, to abscond

    frog and toad main road (rhyming slang)

    Joe Blake to visit a low woman in a e

    Bartlemy, to go to

    o to run ao leave someone in the lurch

    vertical care-grinder treadmill

    co to s

    marinated, to be transported; from t pickling herrings undergo in Cornwall

    poll up, to to live e sex in a state of

    unmarried impropriety

    liver-faced adj. -- mean, cowardly

    cty adj. -- infested h lice

    beef-upid

    cupboard-ing one wh wooden

    and hollow

    culver-upid

    fiddle-faced adj. -- applied to tenances

    glumpisubborn, sulky temper (our ainly fits the

    bill here!)

    squabby adj. -- fat, s and thick

    dab tros bad sort (back slang)

    in o be to ained a black eye, or quot;mousequot;, in the course of a

    tussle

    fadge, it expression meaning quot;it just  doquot;, or quot;it just  ;

    Jerry go Nimbles diarrhoea

    stun, to to astonish

    streak, to to abscond

    pick up ones sticks and to collect ones possessions and leave an establis

    cut, to notice; to do a quot;moonligquot;

    bolt, to to run away, escape

    a speel on to take a trip to try

    drum, to take

    top of Rome home (rhyming slang)

    Sten Saturday corruption of quot;S-in Saturdayquot;; tween Good

    Friday and Easter Sunday

    worm policeman

    pin, to to arrest, to apprehend

    scaly adj. -- unpleasant, disgusting

    shaver young person

    tom and Jerry, a a drinking shop

    star to to break ther

    tradesman, and take any valuable articles and run away.

    Sometimes t rip of

    leatened to t out to keep it from

    falling in and making a noise. Anoto cut the sash

    go over tile, to to go for trial (rhyming slang)

    Spike Park the Queens Bench prison

    topped, to be to be executed. e richly deserved


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